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T̓łat̓ła̱sk̓udis Sointula

8 November - 7 December 2024

Haydens Gallery

Naarm Melbourne

T̓łat̓ła̱sk̓udis Sointula, 2024

T̓łat̓ła̱sk̓udis Sointula, 2024

T̓łat̓ła̱sk̓udis Sointula, 2024

oil on aluminium composite off-cuts, each 10 x 14 cm

The works presented for Haydens are the result of time on residency in a small island community of T̓łat̓ła̱sk̓udis Sointula in the north island region - the Kwakwaka'wakw Territories - in British Columbia in Canada.

The light in the gallery is very still and even but because of their materiality (oil on aluminium) the appearance of the works in this exhibition vary with the light as a viewer moves through the space.

Documented by Christian Capurro and Haydens

Photograph Video: the garden 1

23 August - 10 September 2024

Window Gallery

T̓łat̓ła̱sk̓udis Sointula, Canada

Video still, Photograph video: the garden 1, 2024

Installation view, Photograph video: the garden 1, 2024

Installation view, Photograph video: the garden 1, 2024

Installations view, Photograph video: the garden 1, 2024

The Window Gallery is located at the Sointula Art Shed - an old work shed (with a fishing net mending loft) that is now an art space in a residential street in a small village in the north island region - the Kwakwaka'wakw Territories - in British Columbia, Canada. This work was developed while on residency during August 2024.

The video shows an instant photograph that has been filmed for the duration of its development, on the ground, in the location where the photograph was taken. The site in this instance was just to the left of the window gallery, in the garden that surrounds The Sointula Art Shed where I was working at that time.

Through the video's duration the layering of images presented are complicated by their materiality and incidence of that moment in time: the movement of wind and insects passing; the roar of a car passing and voices of others working nearby; and my own shifting weight as I sit behind the camera.

never together

20 July - 18 August 2023

Lara Chamas, Matilda Davis, Christopher Duncan, Evangeline Riddiford-Graham, Fiona Williams

Curated by Victoria Wynne-Jones

Futures Gallery

Naarm Melbourne

Untitled, 2023, Cyanotype on Somerset velvet white 300 gsm, 18 x 24.5 cm. Unique (one of pair)

installation view, never together, 2023,

A rain cyanotype made in response to an oblique moment from Helen Garner's short story 'In Paris'.

Equinox_1:03PM NZST_23-9-22
23rd September – 8th October, 2022

Lynn Marie-Kirby ^{(PDT) -7}Jessika Kenny ^{(PDT) -7}Azadeh Emadi ^{(BST) +1}Wolfgang Weileder ^{(BST) +1}Dillwyn Smith ^{(BST) +1}Steve Sutton ^{(BST) +1}Fiona Williams ^{(AEST) +10} Rodney Cross ^{(AEST) +10}Chris Braddock + Guests ^{(NZST) +12}Balamohan Shingade^{(NZST) +12}Layne Waerea ^{(NZST) +12}Eamon Edmunson-Wells ^{(NZST) +12}Ziggy Lever ^{(NZST) +12}The Observatory Project ^{(NZST) +12}
^{Organised by Eamon Edmundson-Wells, Chris Braddock, and Ziggy Lever.}

St Paul St Gallery

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand

During the Equinox, the plane of Earth's equator passes through the geometric centre of the Sun's disk. In this celestial alignment, the Earth's poles tilt neither toward nor away from the Sun. On the equator, the sun rises exactly due east and sets exactly due west. Only on the Equinox is a 12 hour day and a 12 hour night shared everywhere on Earth. Observing the Equinox is a call to (re)turn one's attention to the exactness of the present and offers a duty to observe our present condition. This exhibition continues a series of conversations that were held during the northward and southward Equinoxes of 2021 and 2022. Participants from all over the world met at these times to discuss notions of time and duration.The 2022 southward (vernal) Equinox is at 1:03pm (NZST) on Friday the 23rd September.This project falls on the exact 50-year spring equinox anniversary of Phil Dadson's Earthworks(1971-2) which was documented as the video 'Earthworks' Represents a Temporary Instant in the Continuum of Universal Ebb and Flow.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In Gallery One a group of works was configured including: Shadow Tides: St Paul St Gallery, Gallery One, Tāmaki Makaurau, September 2022 - a chart loosely recording the appearance and play of light and shadows in Gallery One during the gallery day; a 'Photograph Video', that is, a video recording an instant photograph developing at the site where it was taken on a shoreline; and a pencil on paper drawing from a photographic source, from near the same place.

In Gallery Two, during the Equinox, a meeting took place with participants from different locations convening for a moment in Auckland time. And works were made and/or took place including: Photograph video: Equinox, around 1:03pm NZST 23-9-22, digital video, sound, 26:36 - this work was made during the event and was available online for the final day of the exhibition. Full documentation can be found here +

Cohabitants

19 August - 17 September 2022

Favour

Ōtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand

Untitled, 2021, oil on aluminium

Untitled (sodden camelias), 2020, oil on aluminium

Untitled, 2021, oil on aluminium

Untitled (sheoak), 2021, oil on aluminium

After the exhibition opening a walk took place (with a small group of interested people) through the nearby forest, illuminated by the local glow worms.

View detail shots of works via hyperlinked titles. Photographed by Justin Spiers. More images + Plants as arranged by Miss Reid Floral Studio whose space is shared with Favour.

Elbow-room in the universe
22 - 25 January, 2020

Amy Howden-Chapman, Fiona Williams, Sholto Buck, val Smith, Sonya Lacey.

Curated by Victoria Wynne-Jones

Enjoy Contemporary Art Space

Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara, New Zealand

Elbow room in the universe, installation view, 2020

Elbow room in the universe, installation view, 2020

Fiona Williams, Untitled, 2020

alkyd oil on aluminium, 400 x 600 mm

Fiona Williams, Untitled (where the cat lay II), 2018

alkyd oil on aluminium, 400 x 600 mm

Fiona Williams, Untitled, 2018, Untitled, 2018

alkyd oil on aluminium, varnished, 135 x 192 mm

Fiona Williams, Untitled, 2017

alkyd oil on aluminium, 400 x 300 mm

Elbow room in the universe, installation view, 2020

Photographed by Cheska Brown and Enjoy Contemporary

full exhibition documentation.

Untitled (shadow hues), 2019

gouache on paper

148 x 210mm

( ... )

May 25 & 26 2019

Fiona Williams & Ruth Höflich

DAVID

Naarm Melbourne

( ... ), 2019, installation view, David

( ... ), 2019, installation view

Fiona Williams, Untitled, 2018

alkyd oil on aluminium

13.5 x 19.2 cm

Untitled (video still), 2017

alkyd oil on aluminium

19.9 x 60 cm

Untitled (cat), 2017

alkyd oil on aluminium

40 x 60 cm

Untitled, 2017

alkyd oil on aluminium

40 x 60 cm

Paintings exhibited alongside Ruth Höflich's video piece 'Silver Cords', 2019.

Photographed by Christian Capurro at DAVID, 1/122 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, May 2019.

The Mechanic, Part 2
25 October - 3 November, 2018

Curated by Nick Kleindeinst and Neon Parc

Albert Oehlen, Benni Bosetto, Carla Milentis, Dale Frank, Damiano Bertoli, Dan Arps, Elizabeth Newman, Erica McGilchrist, Fiona Williams, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Lou Hubbard, Masato Takasaka, Nick Ryrie, Peter Maloney, Phyllida Barlow, Rea Burton, Rob McLeish, Sean Peoples, Travis MacDonald.

Neon Parc Offsite

Brunswick, Naarm Melbourne